The seventy-first episode of "Water Margin" ranked the seats, this time the author wrote mysteriously, wrote a sci-fi blockbuster of Mars hitting the earth, and flew a list from outside the sky, the upper should be Tiangang, and the lower part was sha, which happened to be the 108 generals of Liangshan, and it happened to be even the seats arranged.
Something like this, a discerning person can see that it is **. So why did the heroes of Liangshan collectively choose to remain silent in the face of this list? This is, of course, because of Song Jiang's cleverness, and his successful use of the three ** blocked everyone's mouths.
Faye Wong has a song called "I Do", which has a lyric in it, saying that missing is a very mysterious thing, like a shadow. The Mandate of Heaven is also a very mysterious thing, and it also follows you like a shadow.
What is Destiny? In Confucian theory, heaven and destiny are closely linked, and for ordinary people, "it is in man to seek things, and it is in heaven to achieve things", and the will of heaven determines the overall situation of success or failure. For the emperor, being ordered by heaven gives him the legitimacy to govern the country and level the world.
So, as far as life is concerned, the Confucian Mandate of Heaven has two meanings:
First, the Mandate of Heaven refers to the manifestation in the real world of the results determined by Heaven and governing human affairs. "Life" in this sense can be understood as a noun.
For example, we often say that "death and life have a fate, and wealth is in the sky", this statement leads to a result, just as "there are times in life that must be there, and there is no time in life to force it", which reflects a result that cannot be changed, that is, fatalism.
Second, the mandate of heaven refers to the process of activities in which heaven endows, commands, or dominates the real world. The word "life" here can be understood as a verb, emphasizing a legitimate activity that has been granted by God.
For example, the legend of Liu Bang's beheading of the White Snake Uprising conveyed the message of the uprising that was ordered by the heavens. Another example is in "Water Margin", Song Jiang's Liangshan slogan "Doing the Way for Heaven" is obviously to do evil, and he has to advertise his behavior as driven by the will of heaven, and the purpose is to find a legal excuse for his behavior.
It can be said that the Mandate of Heaven is the top-level design of Confucianism, and there are many manifestations of this Mandate of Heaven in **
For example, Chao Gai, Wu Yong and others, the Seven Stars Gathering Righteousness to rob the Birth Gang, it was clearly a robbery case, but the author gave this big robbery enough reason, that is, Chao Gai had a magical dream, the Big Dipper fell on the roof, and used the vision in the dream to justify the reunion of the seven people, so as to show that this set of wealth is providential.
Another example is when Song Jiang met the Nine Heavenly Xuannu and accepted the three volumes of Heavenly Books, the author used the Mandate of Heaven to give Song Jiang an extraordinary mission and gave him a legitimate reason to do the right thing for heaven.
In the same way, things like the list of heavenly seats are important in reflecting a result, and the emphasis is on its irreversibility.
Song Jiang and Wu Yong were deeply influenced by Confucianism, and they used the profound influence of Confucianism's concept of the Mandate of Heaven on ordinary Chinese people, and thus concocted a list of heavenly grants, which was intended to force all heroes to "accept their fate".
Everyone knows that there are a lot of tricks in the list of 108 generals, but Song Jiang and Wu Yong did not make up this list randomly, but comprehensively considered the factional structure within Liangshan.
The reason why Song Jiang wanted to throw out a list of heavenly grants was to establish a new order. Strictly speaking, the heroes of Liangshan are a group of marginal people who have been abandoned by mainstream society, they roam the rivers and lakes, survive by violence, and if they want to go further, they must establish their own set of management rules internally.
In ancient society, whether it was in the family, rivers and lakes, or in the temple, it was a kind of traditional culture that was recognized.
Moreover, based on the universality of this traditional culture, people have formed an inherent social consensus within themselves, such as the feudal society's Shinong, industry and commerce, and the three religions and nine streams.
However, the ranking of various industries is concrete, there are rules of rivers and lakes in the rivers and lakes, and there are rules of temples in the temples.
For example, in the Chao Gai era, Chao Gai's eldest brother position was based on his leadership of "outwitting the birth gang", Wu Yong sat in the second place, Lin Chong said, thinking that he was good at using soldiers, calling generals, and it was appropriate to be in charge of the army, so he could sit in the second position; And Gongsun Sheng is famous in the rivers and lakes, has unpredictable opportunities and can call the wind and rain, ranking third; Lin Chong sat in fourth place.
From the ranking of the second-generation Liangshan elders mentioned above, we can see that the principle they follow is the size of their ability. But by the time of the Song River, this principle was broken.
Before Song Jiang went to Liangshan, Hua Rong, Qin Ming and others had joined Liangshanbo, and after Song Jiang joined, the strength of Liangshanbo's faction underwent major changes, and the new forces centered on Song Jiang strongly crushed the second-generation veteran faction headed by Chao Gai.
Therefore, when Chao Gai was alive, Liang Shanbo couldn't rank his seats, Chao Gai and Song Jiang, who was the right boss was a difficult problem for the author and Song Jiang.
After Chao Gai's death, who was the boss, the rules of the rivers and lakes of the Chao Gai era no longer apply, so Chao Gai's last words were finally resolved by Song Jiang, and Song Jiang introduced the rules of the new boss with his own principles.
After Song Jiang successfully became the eldest brother, he formulated a seat list based on his personal principles. Obviously, this list of heavenly drops greatly reflects the personal will of Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others.
Song Jiang's primary goal was to recruit An, so the officer group was naturally ranked in the most important position, and among the thirty-six Tiangang stars, they were the backbone; Of the seventy-two Earthshatters, they are also the leaders.
For example, the Five Tigers of the Ma Army ranked Zhongguansheng in fifth place, and his deputies Xuan Zan and Hao Siwen were ranked in the position of the Earth Evil Star. Another example is Hu Yanzhuo ranked eighth, and his deputies Han Tao and Peng Xi were in the first place. There are also Qin Ming and Huang Xin, the former is ranked seventh, and Huang Xin is ranked 38th as his apprentice.
Song Jiang's seating list is laid out in such a way, which focuses on a principle, that is, military power as the center. He held the power himself, and his power was secured and embraced through the officer corps, thus achieving the goal of controlling the voice with influence.
In addition to using the influence of the officer group to maintain his will, Song Jiang also used his influence in the rivers and lakes to play a set of emotional cards.
There is also a more obvious feature in the seat list, that is, most of the heroes who are closely related to Song Jiang have a good ranking, such as Wu Yong, Hua Rong, Zhu Tong, Dai Zong, Li Kui and others.
Moreover, there are many heroes who come because of Song Jiang's admiration, and these heroes can be regarded as followers of Song Jiang, such as Li Jun, the dragon of the mixed river, Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu, Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun brothers, as well as Gu's sister-in-law's faction, as well as Duan Jingzhu who stole the horse to give to Song Jiang, Jianghu artist Xue Yong, etc.
It can be said that Song Jiang's followers also account for a large proportion, and Song Jiang can easily handle these people, just relying on his own name is enough, because based on the class attributes of the bottom, they naturally have a sense of worship for heroes, and Song Jiang happens to be the hero in their hearts.
Therefore, Song Jiang's cronies and followers will not care too much about the rationality of the seat, and they value Song Jiang's leadership more.
To sum up, based on the above three ** rules, even if the seats concocted by Song Jiang do not meet the ranking in the hearts of the heroes, they will not have infighting:
First, they were spiritually baptized by the doctrine of Destiny;
secondly, because the largest group of forces, the official and military groups, has been given a good position; Song Jiang's cronies and followers would not have risen up to rebel;
Again, the rest of the heroes like Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Chai Jin, Li Ying, etc., these heroes with strong personal ability or influence, Song Jiang also arranged a good position for them in advance.
Therefore, even if Song Jiang uses clumsy acting skills to arrange a ** in the ranking of seats, everyone will not reveal the truth.